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H. BISHOP.

ADVERTISING BIRD GAGE.

I Patented Apr. 15, 1884.

I NVENT CIR- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY BISHOP, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

ADVERTISING BIRD-CAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent; No. 296,912, dated April 15, 1884.

Application filed August- 23, 1883. {No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

a part of the main spindle a. The plate C has Be it known that I, HENRY BISHOP, of the I an annular space adapted for advertisements,

city of Baltimore, and State of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in Advertising Bird-Cages, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the drawings forming a part hereof.

This invention relates to certain improvements in that class of closed bird-cages which are provided with a revoluble perch located within the cage,which is rotated as birds alight thereon; and it consists in means whereby the cage is adapted for advertising purposes, as will hereinafter fully appear.

In the said drawings, Figure I is an exterior front View of the advertising bird-cage.

Fig. II is a transverse section of the same. Figs. III, IV, and V illustrate modifications in.

the construction of the advertising-disk.

A is the closed cage, and B the revoluble perch located within the cage, consisting of the central spindle, a, which rests in bearings b, the arms 0, and the counterpoised and independently-revoluble bars (I.

C, Fig. I, is an annular plate or disk secured to a hub, e, and situated outside of the cage and on a short piece of shaft, f, which forms which space is occupied in the drawings with the words An Advertising Bird-Gage.

In Fig. III each armis provided with anindependent] y-counterpoised disk having an ad- In Fig. IV the disks are fastvertising-space. ened rigidly to the arms, and in Fig. V the space between two sets of arms is closed and adapted to receive the advertisement.

From the foregoing it will be understood that the movement of the advertising disk or plate will attract attention to the advertisement thereon.

I claim as my invention An advertising bird-cage consisting of a closed cage, A, a revoluble perch, (I, located within the cage, and a disk, 0, situated outside the cage and having a space adapted to receive advertisements, the disk being secured to the revoluble spindle a of the perch, substantially as specified.

HENRY BISHOP.

\Vitnesses:

EDWARD J. DIGGS, JOHN W'ILLIAMs. 

